Posts Tagged ‘taxonomy’

The Emergence of a “Know” Profile

The value of accessing the right knowledge assets applied to any given problem, any new innovation or market opportunity is increased productivity.

A Public Knowledge Inventory Taxonomy

The trick is that everyone needs to be using the same taxonomy so that we can all access knowledge inventories of the people around us as easily as it is to access books on Amazon.com. This will lead to a trade in knowledge assets formally the sole domain of corporations through the process of industrialization (yet another blog post) .

Social Media Taxonomy is Power

Ask the French about linguistic purity and you get the feeling that an attack on a culture happens through an attack on the language. Likewise, corporations arising from the industrial revolution communicate internal structure and processes through the use of a well protected internal language. This serves as both a means of storing knowledge across generations of workers, and as a means of encrypting the knowledge from those who would pillage the enterprise.

Conversational Taxonomies; WordThink?

Given that a great deal of literacy is reflected in our conversations, it is not difficult to accept that much of what we say can be traced back to some book or classified publication. True, knowledge comes from experience, but knowledge is derived from information and information is classified by the Dewey system, WordThink, The Universal Decimal Classification System or any number of proprietary taxonomies.